Oyo state seats at a commendable 8th position with ₦22 billion (₦22,448,338,825), amongst 36 states in the 2017 Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) ranking.

The better news is that the State Government has set an IGR target of ₦112.09 billion for 2018; that's a 400% increase, and the state's been achieving it.

The board of Internal Revenue will generate N48 billion, at a monthly IGR target of N4billion, while MDAs will provide N64billion. MDAs tasked to generate revenue are the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, N40 billion; Bureau of Investment, Promotion and Public-Private Partnership to make N2.5 billion, while N2.57 billion is to come from the Health Insurance Scheme, and N2.56 billion from the office of the Surveyor-General.

Aside from the ongoing ones, some of the projects that have benefitted from IGR in part, include rehabilitation of Beere-Alekuso-Agbeni-Dugbe, rehabilitation of Oritamerin-Ayeye-Inalende-Mokola road, with spur of Mapo-Oritamerin, rehabilitation of Moniya-Ojutaye-Iseyin road, expansion/rehabilitation of Beere-OritaAperin-Akanran-Gbedun-Dagbolu, expansion/rehabilitation of Apata-Bembo-Olosun, among others.

This is commendable, especially considering where the state was prior 2011.

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